Casket-handle.



E. R. SARGENT.

CASKET HANDLE.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 25, 1911.

1,064,778. Patented June 17, 1913.

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UNITED STATE PATENT @FFIQE.

EDWARD R. SARGENT, 0F NEIV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SARGENT &COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION 011' CONNECTICUT.

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Application filed September 25, 1911.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known thatI, EDWARD R. SARGENT, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city of New Haven, countyof New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Casket-Handles, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, when taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, which form a part thereof.

My invention relates to handles for caskets and similar articles and itsobject is to provide a construction of this kind in which the partsadapted to receive the strain are built up of separate pieces, which maybe cheaply manufactured and readily assembled.

With this object and others in view, my invent-ion is embodied inpreferable form in the device hereinafter described and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings.

In these drawings, Figure 1 is a front view in elevation of a caskethandle to which my invention is applied; Fig. 2, a rear view inelevation; Fig. 3, a vertical section at right angles to Fig. 1 on theline mw,' Fig. 4:, a plan view of the reinforcing member looking fromthe inside of the socket member; Fig. 5, an end view of said reinforcingmember; Fig. 6, a detail side view of one of the arms of the reinforcingmember, showing the same before connection to the reinforcing member;Fig. 7 a plan View of the main body member of the reinforcing memberbefore attachment of the pivot arms; and Fig. 8, a detail side View ofthe reinforcing member for the connecting arm between the handle and thesocket plate.

In all figures similar letters of reference represent like parts.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a grip portion or handle properconnected by means of hanger arms 2 of the usual exterior constructionto the socket plates 3. These socket plates are adapted to be secured tothe casket by means of screws or bolts passing through apertures 4E.

Adapted to receive both the pivot pin for the hanger arms and to receivethe bearing of the screws or similar fastening means is a reinforcingmember 5 suitably secured to the inner face of the socket plate. Inorder to enable such member to be cheaply manufactured and quicklyassembled the same is adapted to be built up of separate Specificationof Letters Patent.

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[parts which are permanently secured together. The main body of themember is formed of a single flat plate 6. This plate is provided ateach end with ears 7 in which are formed apertures 8 corresponding withthe openings 1 in the socket plates through which are adapted to bepassed the fastening means. The plate 6 is also provided with anintegral upwardly projecting central lug 9. In the central portion ofthe plate are formed two pairs of perforations 10, which are adapted toreceive the lugs 11 projecting from the edges of two arms 12. These lugsare passed through the perforations and clenched on the opposite side ofthe plate. The arms provide two parallel spaced bearing members toreceive a pivot pin 13 which passes through perforations in ears 14formed in the ends of said arms. The arms also provide guiding andbearing means for the hanger arm.

It will be understood that the rigidity and strength of the constructionis considerably increased by making the reinforcing plate 6 continuousfrom end to end, with a reinforcing lug in the middle, and by securingseparate pivot arms 12 to the plate in order not to impair thesubstantial continuity of the same. The strength of the construction isalso materially increased by extending the bearing portions of the pivotarms substantially across the full width of the middle portion of theplate and across the lug 9. In this manner, the pivot arms will have alarge effective bearing surface on the plate, and the latter will besubstantially reinforced by the arms in such a manner as to preventbuckling. Moreover, it will he noted that the lug 9 is substantially inthe line of the openings 8, and that the portions or shanks of theseparate arms 12 intersect at line connecting said openings 8. By thisconstruction, the strain received by the arms 12 will be transmitted tothe reinforcing plate at points substantially in line with the fasteningscrews, so that the leverage on the plate is reduced to a minimum. Inother words, each of the arms 12 may be about evenly distributed onopposite sides of a line connecting the fastening screws. Further, byconstructing the arms 12 separately, and then attaching them to thereinforcing plate, the hanger arm can be more nicely adjusted than isthe case where the arms are bent up integrally from the plate, for, in

the latter case, the pivot holes for the hanger arm must ordinarily bestamped out of the plate before the latter is bent up, and in bending upthe plate it is a very diflicult matter indeed to bring the oppositepivot holes for the hanger arm into exact alinement with each other.

The hanger arm is provided on its inner face with a reinforcing member15 of hard metal having an eye 16 which is adapted to engage the gripportion of the handle and having on its upper end a perforation 17adapted to receive the pivot pin. The reinforcing member 15 projectsbetween the two parallel arms of the reinforcing member of the socketplate, and at its extreme lower end beyond the pivot is provided with aprojecting tongue 18 which is adapted to contact with the lug 9projecting from the hard metal rigid reinforcing plate of the socketmember for the purpose of limiting the pivotal movement of the hangerarms and grip member relative to the socket memher and for obtainingsuch stopping action through contact of the hard metal reinforcing partsso as not to injure or cut into the softer metal of the body of thesocket member of the hanger arm.

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. As an article of manufacture, a casket handle member comprising aplate having openings at the respective ends for fastening screws, saidplate lying substantially in a single plane and being continuous fromend to end, separate substantially parallel arms having shanks orbearing portions extending substantially across the intermediate portionof the plate,'said arms intersecting a line connecting the aforesaidopenings, and having oppositely located pivot openings for a hanger arm,and lugs on the shanks of said arms extending through the plate andclenched on the opposite face thereof; substantially as described.

2. As an article of manufacture, a casket handle member comprising aplate having openings at the respective ends and having a solid portionextending continuously in sub stantially a single plane from oneof saidopenings to the other, an integral lug or extension on the intermediateportion-of said plate, lying in the plane of the plate and substantiallyin line with said openings, separate parallel arms having shanks or bearing portions extending substantially across said lug or extension andthe intermediate portion of the plate, and lugs on said arms extendingthrough the plate and clenched on the opposite face thereof, said armshaving suitable pivot openin s for a hanger arm; substantially as descried.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand on the 22nd day ofSeptember,

EDWARD R. SARGENT. Witnesses:

JOHN H. SHAW, BERTHA RAY.

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